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France Outlaws Hashed Passwords?

Myatu

07-04-2011, 19:02

The actual French decree doesn't state anything remotely to what the title of that Slashdot entry implies. Nor is that the reason why Google, Facebook and others are challenging the decree. In short: it's scare mongering.

From the original English news reports:

The decree, published at the start of March, obliges e-commerce sites as well as video-music sites and online email services to keep a battery of data on their customers.

These include users' full names, associated postal address, pseudonyms, associated email addresses, telephone number, passwords and data used to check or modify them.

The data must be kept for a year and can be demanded in the context of an enquiry by police, the fraud office, customs, tax or social security authorities.